Lexicon for Internet Security
This little lexicon gives you a small overview of today's common internet expressions regarding IT security.
- 3DES (Triple-DES)
- AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
- Active Contents
- ActiveX
- Address spoofing
- Application level gateway
- Asymmetrical encryption
- Attachment
- Attack simulators
- Attacks from within
- Authentication
- Authenticity
- BSI Grundschutzhandbuch (Basic Protection Manual)
- BSI Sicherheitshandbuch (Security Manual)
- BSI
- Blacklisting
- Bluetooth
- Bridging Packetfilter
- Brute-force attack
- Buffer overflow
- CA (Certificate Authority or Certification Authority)
- Certifications
- Challenge-response procedure
- Circuit-level gateway
- Cluster
- Cold Standby
- Common Criteria (CCITSE)
- Confidentiality
- Contingency plan
- Cryptography
- DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service)
- DES (Data Encryption Standard)
- DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
- DNS
- DOS (Denial of Service)
- Data back-up
- ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload)
- Email encryption
- Encryption (Cryptography)
- False Positive
- Firewall
- Greylisting
- Hacker
- Hardening, Kernel Hardening
- High Availability (HA)
- Hoax
- Hot Standby
- IDS
- IP Masquerading
- IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
- IPsec
- IPv6
- ISDN
- ITIL
- ITSEC
- Identification
- Integrity
- Internet Worm
- Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
- Java
- JavaScript
- KAME
- Key lengths
- MD5 (Message Digest 5)
- MIME
- Macro Viruses
- Maintenance access options
- Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
- Modems
- Multi-stage firewall
- NAT (Network Address Translation)
- Name Service (DNS)
- One-off passwords
- Orange Book
- PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)
- PGP
- Packet Filter
- Passwords
- Passwort crackers
- Penetration Test
- Personal Firewall
- Phishing
- Ping of Death
- Port Forwarding (SSH Tunneling)
- Port Scan
- Private Key
- Protocol Anomaly
- Proxy Server
- Proxy
- Public Key
- RFC (Request For Comment)
- RFID
- RSA
- Race condition
- Relay misuse
- Routing attacks
- S-HTTP
- S-MIME
- SPAM
- SSH (Secure Shell)
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
- SYN flooding
- Secure Server network
- Security guidelines
- Security through obscurity
- Session hijacking
- Signature Law
- Sniffers
- Social engineering
- Spoofing
- Stateful inspection
- Symmetrical encryption
- TCP sequence number attacks
- TCP/IP
- TEMPEST
- Token
- Tripwire
- Trojan Horse
- Trusted Computing
- USB-Stick
- VPN (Virtual Private Network)
- Virus scanner
- Viruses
- VoIP
- WLAN
- War dialer
- War-Driving
- Web Application Firewall
- Whitelisting
- Worm
